Russell Lasson
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[Michael Sacci] “And Russell, I correct myself, when you take the removal of the reductant frames into account on DVCProHD you do come out about the same as DVCPro50. I spoke too soon.”
At about 6MB/sec, that’s why DVCPROHD 720P24 is one of my favorite editing codecs.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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The Western Digital HDTV box is pretty cool and user friendly. It’s also only $100.
https://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=572
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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I would probably capture at DVCPROHD 24P. If you have a blackmagic card with HDSDI, it should remove the flags from the Varicam footage so you’ll end up with 24P footage.
DVCPROHD and DVCPRO50 are very similar file sizes, DVCPROHD is only slightly bigger.
When you’re done, you can down convert your footage to either crop the image to 4×3 or letterbox it. From there, your web file can be 24P and your broadcast master can be 29.97 by letting the card add the pulldown when you lay it off to tape.
I would tend to go this way to avoid the DVCPRO50 interlaced footage.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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That should be right.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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16×9 still uses the 4096/2048 base. The HD setting uses 3840/1080 base. All Log and Transfer does is cut the 4k value in half. Check out the FCStudio whitepaper on RED’s support site for more info.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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Just for clarification, are you shooting 4K 16×9 or 4K HD?
Thanks,
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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I just want compressor to run on my iPhone! Is that too much to ask:)
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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You can only do that if the footage was shot at 4k HD or 2k HD. You’ll end up with 1920×1080 that way.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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[david bogie] “There’s only one reason undo won’t work, you haven’t done anything to undo.
Maybe two reasons. you’ve set the prefs to 0 levels of undo.
Okay, three reasons. FCP is broke. “Fourth reason, the “Z” on the keyboard could be broken from using apple+z too much.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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[Rob Grauert] “1. I have read many times that it is OK to capture your footage natively, let say HDV for instance, and just set “Compressor” in the Sequence Settings window to ProRes422 or ProRes422 (HQ)”
This works because it doesn’t matter if you convert the native files to ProRes and then edit or edit then native files then convert your sequence to ProRes when you’re done. In both cases, you’re taking the native file and converting it to ProRes.
[Rob Grauert] “If this really does work, why would anyone want to transcode to ProRes — why take up more hard drive space and tax the CPU even more?”
If you have enough drive space, I’d convert to ProRes for the edit because it’s what I consider a “edit friendly” codec. It actually takes less CPU power to work with ProRes than to work with HDV. HDV isn’t “edit friendly” because of the long GOP structure.
[Rob Grauert] ” I can switch between Medium and High quality playback anytime, right?
“Yes. It’s only for playback.
[Rob Grauert] “3. In your opinion, how do you feel about transcoding footage from miniDV to ProRes and/or working in a timeline with the Compressor set to ProRes? “
I prefer to set the compressor to whatever is native for the footage. Less rendering for editing means less time waiting and more time editing.
[Rob Grauert] “4. I’m still a bit confused about when to use ProRes422 vs. ProRes422 (HQ). I understand the regular version is 145Mbps and 220Mbps, and I think both are 10-bit, but when will I want to use one over the other? “
When I’m using ProRes as an offline file for editing for something like RED footage, I’ll use the non HQ. I just like that it’s full raster. When I’m going to be using the files for finishing, I’ll use the HQ version.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
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Ridgeline Digital Cinema Mastering
Salt Lake City, UT